Prof. Tari Russo
ENG240
3/31/2014
ZOOPAIN
Before human beings even existed in the world, who was already living on earth? The animal’s right! Do people think keeping animal away from their habitat is the best? Why do people think that zoos are protecting them from endangered? Actually, what they really do,
Is torture them to live a new lifestyle from what they are really use to. Animals in the zoo tend to develop a kind of a mental illness, they are in caged for life and are forced to live in a confined space. Although, zoo harm animals, they sometimes help them to be out of extinction. But, who’s to say that animals in the wild would reproduce easily than in the zoo? In reality if zoos teach, what they’re really teaching is dangerous lessons. They are teaching kids and people to deprive animals from their environment and family. Imagine how an animal feel when someone take away their newborn. Don’t humans knows animals have feelings too? According to Stephanie Santana and Shauwn Lukose (pp 11-12) from the book (zoochosis) “There is a documented research that many animals removed from their natural habitat and kept in captivity have developed a kind of mental illness known as zoochosis. In (zoochosis), Stepanie Santana and Shauwn Lukose noted that, “animals that present this type of disease often pace back and forth”. Secondly, “twist their necks, bob their heads up and down, turn in never-ending circles”. ”. Santana, Stephanie, Lukose, Shauwn, comp. "Zoochosis." Should There Be Zoos. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 11-12. Print .Lastly “even tear holes in their own skin”. This kind of behavior shouldn’t be appropriate if zoos claimed that they do take care of animals. In addition, animals in zoo that are in caged tend to lose control over their life because of the new environment they are forced to live in. for example “animals kept in cages were grabbing onto the bars and shaking them”. Santana, Stephanie, Lukose, Shauwn, comp.